This destination begins with the self that was shaped before it was chosen.
The role that got warmth.
The silence that prevented trouble.
The strength that became an assignment.
The charm, independence, goodness, beauty, calmness, cleverness or usefulness that may have begun as a real quality and slowly become a cage.
The work here is not to decide which parts of you are fake.
It is to notice which parts of you became compulsory.
Which parts were rewarded until they felt like personality.
Which parts went quiet when life asked you to become easier to love, manage, admire, praise or keep.
Many people think their problems begin in the mind They assume they are overthinking, too sensitive, too reactive, too avoidant, too needy, too numb, or simply “bad at coping.” But very often, what they are experiencing is not a character flaw. It is a nervous system state. Your nervous system is not just responsible for […]